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[The dancing master]
- Title
- [The dancing master] [graphic] / peint par Ph. Canot ; Schnor v. Carolsfeld sc.
- Author
- Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Ludwig Ferdinand, 1788-1853.
- Publication
- [181-?]
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- Additional Authors
- Canot, Philippe, -1783.
- Description
- 1 print : etching, b&w; 30 x 43 cm., plate mark 26 x 36 cm.
- Summary
- An eighteenth-century dancing master with a pochette gives a lesson to a little girl in a private home. A cat looks on from under the table; at left, a little boy, his back turned to the viewer, stands beside an open door.
- Alternative Title
- Maitre de danse
- Genre/Form
- Etchings.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Biography (note)
- This print was based on a painting by Philippe Canot, which was also the basis of an engraving titled Le maitre de danse (1745) by Jacques Philippe Le Bas. A mezzotint version of this image by Thomas Riley, titled The dancing master (ca. 1745-1754), is held by the British Museum.
- Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld, who may have made this print, was a painter and printmaker who belonged to a German family of artists. According to Grove Art Online, he often produced etchings and lithographs in the "outline" style, including illustrations for Friedrich de la Motte-Fouqué's romance Undine.
- Call Number
- *MGZFX Sch L Dan 1
- OCLC
- 825122112
- Author
- Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Ludwig Ferdinand, 1788-1853. Attributed name
- Title
- [The dancing master] [graphic] / peint par Ph. Canot ; Schnor v. Carolsfeld sc.
- Imprint
- [181-?]
- Biography
- This print was based on a painting by Philippe Canot, which was also the basis of an engraving titled Le maitre de danse (1745) by Jacques Philippe Le Bas. A mezzotint version of this image by Thomas Riley, titled The dancing master (ca. 1745-1754), is held by the British Museum.Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld, who may have made this print, was a painter and printmaker who belonged to a German family of artists. According to Grove Art Online, he often produced etchings and lithographs in the "outline" style, including illustrations for Friedrich de la Motte-Fouqué's romance Undine.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.For a copy of Jacques Philippe Le Bas's Le maitre de danse, see: *MGZFH LeB J Mai 1.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Dancing masters.
- Added Author
- Canot, Philippe, -1783. Artist
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFX Sch L Dan 1